Daidalos longs for profundity for essays on architecture, art and culture, Daidalos wants to offer the space that has been lost in established journals. As a free and critical form of writing, essays on Daidalos should seek to link knowledge across disciplines and bring individual perspectives into both existing and new discourses.
 
"The essay is a genre in itself – one that lies between art and science. It is joined to science in how the essay form strives towards knowledge and how it engenders the making of statements, and to art by its mode of knowledge and expression. Unlike the scientist, the essayist's subject is not one of knowledge itself but an experienced reality, and by the essayist confronting themselves via this subject, they also represent themselves. Unlike the artist, the essayist does not make their subject, they find it: their art is the art of thinking."
 
Keiko Hamazaki, Essay al sein alternativer Diskurs, Tokyo 1998